anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Jan 19, 2017 11:51:27 GMT
Besides all the garden girl drama... and before she became a HOFgate scandal... Kristi Contes was an Effer... a small group... 4 or 5... they created scrap pages that some loved but most hated... I loved!!! They had weekly dares... it helped me make pages when I was in scrap block... i admit to being a fan... i loved KC and her new York life... and they other girls... i lived in the country... we were all in ours 20s and my life seemed so different from all of theirs... I love my Effer dares scrapbook... mainly because it really is all me... on a shelf with books about my kids or family events... i have something that shows in those few years that I did sorta have a life... lol... Do you remember the "effers"  How did you feel about them... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 12:00:50 GMT
I don't have any feelings one way or the other. I remember the dares and thought they were interecting, but never did any of them. Wasn't a book of dares published, or am I misremembering? Just looked at Amazon, and yes, there was. I have it, but no idea where it is.
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Post by Katie on Jan 19, 2017 12:24:16 GMT
Yep, I admit I am enjoyed the dares and made some great scrap layouts from them. I bought the book too, but got rid of it long ago. Kinda wished I hadn't, actually. Would be fun to look through it just for the sake of all the drama that happened.
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theshyone
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Post by theshyone on Jan 19, 2017 12:55:08 GMT
Kristi was at a scrapbook thing in Edmonton the weekend the scandal broke, I won a signed copy of the book at that event. I have no idea where it is. I enjoyed the dares, got some neat pages out of them.
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Post by terri on Jan 19, 2017 12:56:29 GMT
I remember and think I participated in a few.
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Kerri W
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Post by Kerri W on Jan 19, 2017 13:41:33 GMT
At that time I could have gone either way with KC. I wasn't offended by her but she didn't hit my radar until the drama.
So out of curiosity I just googled her to see what she's up to now with her art. Holy hell was she ever a drama queen in the midst of that scandal! I stopped looking for what she's doing currently because the first page is basically her going on about how awesome of a badass she is. Then I remembered...that's why I didn't take interest in her. I'm totally on board with what she was trying to put out there about scrapbooking yourself and that actually appeals to me, but omg I can't deal with her self adoration.
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Post by refugeepea on Jan 19, 2017 13:48:19 GMT
I remembered the dares and they didn't bother me. Some of the challenges, I don't know... made me laugh. I had little in common with the group. I thought it was right she was disqualified and it had nothing to do with being vindictive like some of her supporters were saying about people. She broke the rules.  |
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Post by tiffanyr on Jan 19, 2017 13:48:55 GMT
So what actually happened?
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Post by refugeepea on Jan 19, 2017 13:51:35 GMT
So what actually happened? She entered the CK Hall of Fame contest. The photos on some layouts were not ones that she had taken (against the rules) and she still won. There was lots of protesting and they took her title away. I can't remember if she was first, second, third place, honorable mention....? ETA: I think she was the one who had a layout with a photo of her white water rafting, or was that someone else? Anyway, there were a couple that ended up being disqualified. |
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Post by tiffanyr on Jan 19, 2017 13:53:46 GMT
Never mind!! I went and googled it and remember what happened now.
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Post by fredfreddy on Jan 19, 2017 15:09:08 GMT
Yes I dug up her blog/whatever a few years ago and saw that she was still very very into herself, just with different media.
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Post by pierkiss on Jan 19, 2017 15:12:09 GMT
Oh I remember the Effer dares! I liked them at first, but then the style veered off on a path that I just couldn't get in to. But I do still love the idea of "scrapbooking dares". I sought out a bunch of sites that had different kinds of dares. I had fun with them.
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Post by compwalla on Jan 19, 2017 15:19:08 GMT
I always thought the rule about you had to take the picture yourself was stupid. You could never submit a layout with anything that featured a picture of you unless you used a timer or a mirror or some other pre-smartphone selfie technique. How can you say scrapbooking is documenting your life if your life can't really be featured in a meaningful way? That said, she lied about the photo which was a dumb thing to do.
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Post by KikiPea on Jan 19, 2017 15:20:39 GMT
I don't have any feelings one way or the other. I remember the dares and thought they were interecting, but never did any of them. Wasn't a book of dares published, or am I misremembering? Just looked at Amazon, and yes, there was. I have it, but no idea where it is. What was the book called? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 15:40:37 GMT
We Dare You: Scrapbook Challenges about Real Life by Kristina Contes
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Post by anonrefugee on Jan 19, 2017 15:43:49 GMT
The magazine should have disqualified her on entry, and not ignore the rules they established. I felt bad for her. If she'd controlled her remarks the magazine would have gotten more heat- not her.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 16:15:35 GMT
I disliked that your own photo rule. I think it was put there for those scrapbookers who were starting to focus more on photos than scrapbooking.
Personally I think that there shouldn't have been any photos on layouts entered.
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hutchfan
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Post by hutchfan on Jan 19, 2017 16:25:53 GMT
I personally liked this group of girls and their work.
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Post by Crazyhare on Jan 19, 2017 16:30:53 GMT
She wasn't the only one stripped that year. The whitewater rafting photo was someone else. Hers was just a headshot.
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Post by mom on Jan 19, 2017 16:57:19 GMT
I liked the dares...but I did not like KC's attitude.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 18:30:04 GMT
I always thought the rule was just no "professional" pics and both the rafting one and the KC one were taken by professional photographers -- not that the scrapbooker couldn't be in the pics at all.... It is funny how many hits come up with KCs name that are all about this though! Not much current!
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Post by bc2ca on Jan 19, 2017 18:43:18 GMT
I always thought the rule about you had to take the picture yourself was stupid. You could never submit a layout with anything that featured a picture of you unless you used a timer or a mirror or some other pre-smartphone selfie technique. How can you say scrapbooking is documenting your life if your life can't really be featured in a meaningful way? That said, she lied about the photo which was a dumb thing to do. I agree with you about the rule being stupid and, IIRC, didn't KC actually credit the photographer? Others lied about taking the photos, but it's in the back of my mind that she credited the photographer upfront and the magazine published the credit. There was outrage at CK blatantly ignoring their own rule. SaveSave |
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Post by lucyg on Jan 19, 2017 18:52:42 GMT
I thought the rule about having to take all photos yourself was stupid. But since it was the rule, it pissed me off that certain entrants could ignore it, and that CK would ignore the rule when it suited them. I didn't care one way or the other about Kristina Contes's scrapping style. It wasn't mine, but I don't think everyone has to scrap the exact same way I do.  |
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Post by rune2484 on Jan 19, 2017 19:17:53 GMT
I liked the idea of the Dares too. Their blog died a slow death a couple of years ago, but it is still up (albeit in a bare bones form). And Kristi Prokopiak (formerly Contes) is definitely still around the scrapbooking world - I know I've seen her on the Paislee Press blog. |
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gina
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Post by gina on Jan 19, 2017 19:44:12 GMT
I loved the Effers! Fun dares. My friend and I had started a digi dare site way back when after that. I always liked a good scrapbooking challenge.
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Post by candygurl on Jan 19, 2017 20:03:39 GMT
I too loved Kristina and her way of scrapbooking. Bought the book and tried to follow a few dares.
Last week, I got rid of the book so check your Goodwills lol!
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Post by rst on Jan 19, 2017 22:14:33 GMT
I enjoyed the dares. there was that last scrapper standing contest around 2004 or 2005 -- that was fun -- at least I thought so because I stayed in far longer than I expected to.
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Post by sean&marysmommy on Jan 19, 2017 22:27:47 GMT
I always thought the rule about you had to take the picture yourself was stupid. You could never submit a layout with anything that featured a picture of you unless you used a timer or a mirror or some other pre-smartphone selfie technique. How can you say scrapbooking is documenting your life if your life can't really be featured in a meaningful way? That said, she lied about the photo which was a dumb thing to do. She didn't lie; she credited the photographer, who was a friend of hers, and CK printed it right next to the layout in the HOF book. But she should've paid better attention to the rules and not used the photo in the first place. The other winner, the lady with the whitewater rafting photo...I think she outright lied. She tried to say she set the timer on her camera and put it in a tree, to capture the moment when her particular raft was in just the right spot to get a photograph. But others found the website of the place where she went rafting, and apparently there were nearly identical photographs posted of other groups whitewater rafting, and they were taken by an on-site professional photographer. She was either stripped of her title, too, or resigned it or something, if I remember correctly. But I have no memory of who she was! lol |
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Post by kernriver on Jan 20, 2017 0:30:49 GMT
I disliked this group because of the name. Effer is just a shortcut for fuckers and if you name your creative group this, you're not being very creative. More like a tween boy saying boobies. I mentioned this and was told to relax, its just a name. And fwiw, I say fuck all the time so I'm not being a pansy about the word.
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Post by getting started on Jan 20, 2017 0:30:55 GMT
I had forgotten this! I LOVED the effers and was very keen to follow Kristina's work back then. I always thought the rule about having to take the photo yourself was dumb. Like compwalla said, so you could not be in the photo unless you used a timer? Not realistic and for me scrapbooking was about the craft more than setting up fakely posed photos.
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